Monday, July 17, 2017

Blessed are the Dull

Saturday was
uneventful. I walked to visit Bruce.

Sunday morning I
got the mussel shells I need for my defiant dress from a local restaurant. I’ve
been working on a base for a piece of driftwood that I will use as a mount for
the dress. (The driftwood is symbolic of the pier under which Reena Virk was
drowned.)

Sunday
afternoon I went to see Bruce. It’s very quiet there on Sundays; I like that. We
had a good long visit. I think visits are particularly important on weekends
when his days are long and slow; on there’s few staff and no therapy and many
residents get weekend passes.

Holy Family
Hospital (where Bruce is) specializes in the rehabilitation of amputees, people
who have had a stroke and people who’ve had hip replacement surgery — all of the
residents are seniors. Seeing them every day has made me hyper conscious of (and
grateful for) my mobility.

And now another
week begins. Will I hear this week from the Arts
Club? I wonder! In the meantime, I continue to work on the defiant dress
mount.

Today (Monday)
is sunny again. The dry weather has been relentless as it was two years ago and
that is why our province is on fire. Today there are strong winds which bodes
ill for the forest fires.